Susan G. Wooldridge conducts writing workshops privately, through Poets & Writers, Inc., and with the California Poets in the Schools program. She is the author ofPoemcrazy- Freeing Your Life with Words, a Book Sense Pick, a long-running Quality Paperback Book Club selection, and aWriter's Digest Book Club selection. She has also written a chapbook of poems,Bathing with Ants.
This is a wonderful book--smart, wide-eyed, joyful, helpful, inspiring. You're going to love it, and love writing poetry more for having read it. --Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird Wooldridge wants each of us to connect with our inner poet. Savvy . . . optimistic, warm, unpretentious. --San Francisco Chronicle Written with exuberance and great heart, Poemcrazy is a collection of high-spirited meditations and strategies which provide both writing teachers and students a wealth of approaches to poetry. --Wild Duck Review Poemcrazy is, in its simplest sense, a book of ideas and techniques for people who teach poetry. But Wooldridge's enthusiasm takes it into another realm, in which poetry is a state of mind, a way of being spiritual and powerful, a glimpse at the secrets of the inner self. --Arizona Republic Jubilant . . . More than an instruction book for tapping the creative and beginning to write, Poemcrazy is also about being alertly alive. It is a field guide to imagination. --Chico News and Review